Chapter 45: The Reed River
Yang Lei's wife is called Hu Jing, she is very sweet, one meter six tall, melon seed face, very young, almost thirty years old, but she looks like she is only twenty-one or twelve years old, Hu Jing is not too beautiful, but she has the kind of delicate air of a southern woman.
Chen Ziyang has always called her Hu Tutu, because once Hu Jing went up the mountain to go to the grave during the Chinese New Year, and when he came back, his ears were frozen. The temperature in Dawalnut Town in winter is generally more than minus 20 degrees, coupled with the cold wind on the mountain, Hu Jing did not wear a hat, and her ears were frozen and swollen. After Hu Jing touched the green frostbite ointment on her ears, the two big green ears were dripping under the effect of the drug, and Hu Jing's image looked like a monster Shrek...... It just so happened that Hu Jing's surname was Hu, so Chen Ziyang was inspired by cartoons, and since then he has called her Tutu with big ears.
In Chen Ziyang's words, Hu Tutu is a woman-level character, don't look at the person who looks very thin, but the little temper is particularly hot, and catching up with Yang Lei's temper is not good. When the two people are light, they scold each other, and when they are powerful, they do it directly, and if they can't solve it with their mouths, they use their hands directly. The two of them talk about divorce all day long, and at the beginning, as soon as the two of them quarreled, Chen Ziyang went to persuade them, but later they fought too often, and Chen Ziyang didn't bother to care, just don't die.
At the beginning, Chen Ziyang was worried about whether they would divorce if they fought so hard, but later found that his worries were a little redundant. After the quarrel on the first day, the two of them could go out to eat hand in hand on the second day, and Chen Ziyang was speechless. Yang Lei's mother found a fortune teller to calculate a hexagram for the two of them, saying that the couple were enemies in the past life, enemies in this life, and they must fight every day, and it is not good not to fight. So Yang Lei's friends were calm...... No matter how hard they beat Chen Ziyang, they shouldn't have heard it.
Yang Lei and his wife are also very competitive, although they fight a few times from time to time, and sometimes even Hu Tutu scratches Yang Lei out of the potato shreds, but the two of them are still like one person. In fact, couples are like this, some couples are usually sweet, but two people divorce if they don't agree. How can two people not quarrel, they are all stumbling and living together. Husband and wife do not quarrel for a lifetime, but quarrel for a lifetime.
16 kilometers downstream from Da Walnut Town along the Yalu River, there is a small town called Weizi River. It is named after the river flowing through this place, the water is turbulent, the sand and gravel are rolled, and the banks of the river are covered with reeds. The Weizi River also belongs to Linhai City, and before the construction of the highway along the river, the Weizi River was a small isolated village. When Lao Dao took Chen Ziyang to travel all over the mountains and rivers around Linhai City, there was only one place he didn't go, that is, Weizi River. Because the traffic here is so inconvenient.
The Yalu River flows through the upper reaches of the Weizi River, but the downstream is gentle. The perennial river erosion has washed the upper and lower banks of the Weizi River into cliffs, and above the cliffs are steep stone mountains. Because of this section of the cliff, the Reed River was not accessible until the road along the river was repaired. Chen Ziyang remembered that the only way he wanted to go to the Weizi River when he was a child was to wait for the Yalu River to freeze in winter, and then walk over the Yalu River.
The temperature in the mountainous areas of Jilin Province is very low in winter, and the Yalu River has a thick layer of ice on the river surface in winter. In the depths of winter, the ice on the river is very thick and strong, even if you drive a truck carrying goods on the river, there is no problem, the locals call the river at this time the river road, the river road was the main cargo transportation channel in Weizihe Town in the past, but the river road can only last for about one or two months a year, and the rest of the time because the ice thickness is not enough, it will be very unsafe to drive. Heavy trucks can crush the river, causing vehicles to crash and kill people.
When the Yalu River is not frozen or the ice is not thick enough, the only way to get to the Reed River is to climb over the side of the cliff. It is precisely because of the unique traffic conditions of the Weizi River that there was once a national model worker here. The official record goes like this:
Gong Mouyu, whose ancestral home is Shandong, is a descendant of Shandong people who broke into the eastern part of the country, and took root in the Weizi River. He has been engaged in postal work in Weizihe Town for more than 20 years, traveling more than 300,000 kilometers, equivalent to 7 circles around the earth, delivering more than 1.93 million pieces of mail, never making a mistake, never taking a day of illness, personal leave, never missing a shift, and has done countless good things for the local people. He not only collected the exchange money and parcels on behalf of the masses, but also often carried salt, matches, rubber shoes, buckets, medicines, etc. for the masses along the way, which was highly praised by the local people and was known as the "iron man of the post and telecommunications front".
Gong Mouyu went to Beijing in 1969 to participate in the National Day ceremony to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was received by the chairman and the prime minister and other party and state leaders; In September 1979, he was rated as a national model worker. The local people also raised money to erect a tall statue of him.
In fact, Chen Ziyang believes that this description does not write the real reason why Gong Mouyu won the national model worker. The real reason is precisely because of the topography here in the Reed River. Gong Mouyu has to go back and forth on the mountain road for dozens of miles every day, and the mountain road is cut off by the cliff from time to time, and the total length of the cliff on this road adds up to several hundred meters, and the only means of transportation in the hands of Gong Mouyu at that time is a green postal bicycle uniformly distributed by the postal system.
The usual mountain road is fine, riding a bicycle in a good place, a place that is not easy to walk and a place uphill Gong Mouyu pushes a bicycle, but when he arrives at the cliff, Gong Mouyu holds the bicycle between his legs and climbs the cliff slowly with both hands. When he encounters a place with a protruding rock, he can temporarily step on his feet, get stuck on the bicycle, and rest his feet.
In this way, for more than 20 years, Gong Mouyu has crawled here nearly 20,000 times. Chen Ziyang had heard of Gong Mouyu's deeds since he was a child, and he didn't think there was anything to admire at that time, but later Chen Ziyang saw those cliffs on the highway along the river, and he felt a deep shock, which was simply a letter with his life.
Today's Weizihe Town has changed its guns, and it is no longer the poor mountain village that was isolated from the world and a few poor families wore a pair of pants. Now Weizihe Town, the transportation is convenient, four kilometers downstream is the most beautiful scenery along the Yalu River Jinyin Gorge. The gorge is flanked by cliffs, and the turquoise waters of the Yalu River run through the mountains. The river here is wide and the water is stable, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the peaks and mountains are strange, and various famous fish such as aohua and heavy lip are abundant. It not only has a good natural ecological environment, but also has a characteristic cultural landscape, which is a tourist attraction without mountains and beauty, without water and without scenery. The mountain streams in the Jinyinxia tourist area are quiet and beautiful, the streams are charming and colorful, and the strange rocks are towering.
With the advantage of the geographical convenience next to Jinyin Gorge, Weizihe has developed into a tourist town integrating food, accommodation and play. Here you can taste the most authentic Northeast farmhouse cuisine, eat the freshest Yalu River fish, see the most beautiful scenery of the Yalu River, rows of single-family villas are built along the mountain, and the faces of the local residents are full of pride and happy smiles.